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Proteins are awesome.

Mine is what was left over in the pot after yesterday.

Yay microwaves!

Not so bad when it's decent coffee to begin with. There's stuff that's not worth re-heating.

On the bright side it helps me cut down. Only did about 8oz today, and that's trending the right direction.

Yeah the Mrs. would jab me with something pointy if I tried that...

You can also make 2 cups of coffee at the same time with that machine so you'd both have one.

Edit: Theo prefers tea?

Edited, Oct 12th 2012 12:40am by Aethien

I thought you wouldn't say no to anything brown, caffeinated and vaguely coffee like Maz.


edit: Awesome table is awesome.

Edited, Oct 12th 2012 1:28am by Aethien

If you gently close a drawer there won't be enough air pressure to open any others. I've been looking at various of the graduation projects from last year on that site and there's so many brilliant things in there. Most are very much conceptual of course but it's clear why the Design Academy is considered to be one of the best industrial design schools in the world.

Ha! No, I didn't do that, but I wish I had.

Edit: I thought that building didn't look familiar. That was actually at the University of Toronto.

Edited, Oct 11th 2012 8:31pm by IDrownFish

There's quite a few, which gets really annoying when you're trying to google something.

University of Tampa, University of Toronto, University of Tennessee, University of Texas, etc...

I don't drink any caffeine, actually. I use granola bars and stuff like that to get my caloric energy at the beginning of the day, and drink water/gatorade throughout the day.

If I don't have anywhere to be early in the morning, I'll generally go out to a cafe and get french toast, bacon, and OJ. But that's not normal. Got sh*t to do.

I used to drink a lot of soda, thus, caffeine. But then I just decided one day to stop drinking caffeine, and now caffeine has crazy effects on me.

Imagine giving espresso to a four year-old. Yeah.

It's pretty nice for the nights when I don't get a lot of sleep (), because one soda or cup of coffee and I'm good for the rest of the day.

Force yourself to drink less. Sucks the first week but you'll get used to it. Also no crippling headaches if you don't drink coffee for a day or two.

i had beers. i had coffee

the cat poop coffee is good i have had

i prefer beers. and haz many

lacking bewbs post moar

There used to be a place here called ... Greenleaves? Green something, that served meat. Just meat. Venison, boar, beef, chicken. They had these little nubby things that looked like two chess pawns bottoms fused together, half red half green. You'd flip it to green and they'd just keep serving you various meats. No menu, they just carted out the currently cooked dead animal to your table and serve you. I think there may have been a salad bar at the far corner of the building, but @#%^ that, you had meat. I wish that place still existed.

Yeah, don't switch to one cup a day instantly, just gradually build it down.

What I think about when I read research like this: At some point in time, someone thought it would be a good idea to pick through civet guano and pick out the coffee beans, then brew them and drink the brew. This leads me to conclude that in the civet's natural habitat there must be a plant or fungus that contains a substance which produces mind-altering effects, such as psilocybin perhaps.

Now we have a somewhat reasonable explanation. Man is hungry. Man sees peyote button and eats it. Man starts to hear colors and see sounds. Man sees civet pooh and, looking closer, sees what looks like little tiny peyote buttons in it that have little faces on them that are calling out to him to eat them. Man picks through civit pooh and eats coffee beans. Voila! After that, it's not a big jump to brewing those beans.

I think of it this way: back before video games people used to get bored and dare each other to do stupid stuff. Every now and then it paid off.

Your ancestors sound like the Worms from Men In Black.

They also founded Nieuw Amsterdam or as you may know it, Manhattan.

Determining if a sentence was a palindrome or a pangram took me the better part of a day. This one took about 15 minutes and was a lot more fun.

verse1 = 'bottles of beer on the wall,' 
verse2 = 'bottles of beer.' 
verse3 = 'Take one down and pass it around,' 
verse4 = 'bottles of beer on the wall.' 
verse1b = 'bottle of beer on the wall,' 
verse2b = 'bottle of beer.' 
verse4b = 'bottle of beer on the wall.' 
verse4c = 'no more bottles of beer on the wall.' 
a = 99 
b = '' 
while a > 0: 
    if a > 2:     
        b = a - 1     
        print a, verse1, a, verse2 
        print verse3, b, verse4 
        a = b 
    elif a == 2: 
        b = a - 1  
        print a, verse1, a, verse2 
        print verse3, b, verse4b 
        a = b 
    else: 
        b = a - 1  
        print a, verse1b, a, verse2b 
        print verse3, verse4c 
        a = b

Still learning.

Python.

We do a lot of stuff with python around the lab, and there's only one guy here who knows it. His work is piling up, so I'm trying to teach myself enough to help out with the simple stuff (thankfully not much we use it for here is very complicated).

Edited, Oct 12th 2012 2:59pm by someproteinguy

Tell us how you really feel Xsarus lol.

That's a lot of caffeine - french press no less. I don't think I quite hit a quart of coffee a day, but I guess about 24oz. I suppose that's not such a big difference.

I use a Melita drip pot at home with the brown cone filters, and have been seriously considering getting a porcelain cone. But, I may just forgo that and go straight to the AeroPress.

Well, it's not quite the same thing. I mean, Turkish is finely ground, sure, but it's also served with those fine grounds IN it. The ground size isn't going to make much of a difference if you are actually ingesting the beans.

French presses generally use coarse ground coffee, but it's steeped in the boiling water for five minutes, unlike the drip which just filters down through a medium grind. So even if there's less overall surface area to extract the coffee's oils and caffeine from, there's a great deal more time to do so.

And if you are using a drip press with a paper filter, which I hope you aren't because FLAVOR, it'll further reduce caffeine content. Maybe not by a ton, but the paper filter will absorb the coffee's oils instead of transferring them to the pot, and a fair amount of caffeine will be locked in there with them. Only plus size is that it's better for your cholesterol.

Coffee also contains less caffeine as you increase the roast. Blonde roasts with the most, with dark roasts having had some of it burned out. Americans tend to favor Dark Roasts primarily because of a concerted marketing effort started by (what is now) Starbucks back in the 70s. The artisan coffee market is relatively new--until that point, farmers everywhere were growing completely for quantity, not quality. So Starbucks' marketing decided to roast the hell out of the coffee to give it a unique flavor, and get people to adjust to it so they could offer it as a premium product. That's the same reason French Roast is so dark--the type of coffee trees grown in old French colonies (Robusta) aren't engineered to provide premium flavor, they're designed for output. Heavy roasting is how you make them taste good, and the majority of french coffee supply still comes from those places (and French tastes formed off them).

But in the late 70s, early 80s (iirc), a cache of artisan coffee trees (a variety of arabica known as Mundo Novo iirc) were found in... Colombia? Peru? I don't remember... and the farmer who owned the land realized that they could actually properly produce their beans if grown at a higher altitude than most coffee was grown, which actually meant he could use land that was previously useless to him. What he discovered was that their yield was delicious, and he was able to sell those beans for astronomical costs compared to normal beans.

And thus the artisan coffee market was born.

So, nowadays, if you have really good beans, you should favor a blonde roast. Less-awesome beans, medium roast. You're normal Arabica or (especially) Robusta? Dark roast it is.

#Random history lesson of the day because I love coffee and I love history

Okay, another random history lesson, one of my professors was a top scholar on the French Revolution and she's convinced coffee had a huge role in causing both the revolution and the Terror. The popularity of the French Salon had boomed earlier that century, and their popularity had only spread (to the point where many middle class artisans and even the lower class were frequenting coffeehouses almost as frequently as taverns). These became the headquarters for revolutionary ideas, and were driving forces behind the writers and leaders who eventually began the movement.

And for essentially the entirety of the revolution, all of its leaders were sleeping only a handful of hours a night, but drinking coffee all day long. Quite literally, nearly all revolutionaries were dealing with extensive sleep deprivation all the time, which was probably a huge factor in fueling the national paranoia that gripped France from 1792 through 1794.

So yeah, coffee may have been a huge, and often overlooked, cause one of the bloodiest revolutions in popular memory.